Gigapan Comments
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As I have alluded to elsewhere in comments,
Houston does not have many GigaPan moments.
Basically, what I have found for the most part are
the numerous vistas around the small campus of
Rice University: tinyurl.com/RiceUniversity . Elsewhere in the
city, there may be a few more worthwhile panoramas
and I will continue to search; however, recently
the Houston Chronicle has this to say about the
lack of tourism in the city: www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/busin
ess/7192397.html /. We have the rodeo
that brings in a good crowd, but that lasts two
weeks, and Offshore Technology Conference that
brings in *many* visitors from all over the world,
but that is only for a week or less. On the other
hand, if I were to have taken the Living-it-Up on
the Riverwalk at 8PM versus 11AM, you would have a
blur of people as thousands come to the Riverwalk
every night almost the entire year. San Antonio is
the number-one city in the State of Texas for
potential GigaPan activity.

I'd be surprised if a city as big as Houston
doesn't have any tourism business. I guess
size is no guarantee but even places like
Birmingham in the UK - which in most UK
people's minds is a sprawling industrial place
- has made an effort to create places to attract
tourists. Eg what were industrial wastelands now
look like this gigapan.org/gigapans/49074/

Tourists in the city are here for typically on
business and are staying downtown and are visiting
the city during the summer, SO they stay inside
where there is cool or cold air conditioning. Now
the opposite end of the tourist spectrum are the
homeless and in recognition of their
transportation requirements, I have created some
GigaPans: tinyurl.com/HoustonMetroRail-Redli
ne
especially ... tinyurl.com/Homeless001 They ride the train
from the inner city to the church to have
breakfast and then the train back home, only to
return to one of these churches for lunch: www.gigapan.org/gigapans/28917/
Note: There are no homeless to be seen on the
Riverwalk. San Antonio deals with this problem
differently than the manner that Houston does ...
maybe that is why there are so many of these
unfortunate people here in Houston.

For me, that task may be challenging; however, for
you it is much easier: www.gigapan.org/gigapans/22509/
and www.gigapan.org/gigapans/45254/
All you had to do is to walk a few blocks from
where you live, but as for me, I would have to
drive and drive and drive many miles. On the other
hand, simply moving a few hundred yards east and
south would have provided me with another
memorable vista along the San Antonio River.